High Victorian Culture
High Victorian Culture by David Morse, published by NYU Press in January 1993, is a comprehensive examination of Victorian literature and culture during a pivotal period from 1837 to 1877. This edition spans 553 pages and is presented in English, offering readers an insightful look into the era characterized by notable figures such as Dickens, Carlyle, and George Eliot. Morse explores the complexities of mid-Victorian Britain, highlighting both its cultural achievements and the underlying dislocations that marked the society of the time.
Readers will find that Morse delves into the interplay of economic, political, religious, and artistic influences on literature, providing a nuanced understanding of a society grappling with its own contradictions. The book addresses the tensions between democratic ideals and the realities of a profoundly undemocratic culture, revealing how the era’s claims of freedom of speech often concealed deeper societal issues. This scholarly work presents a detailed cultural perspective, making it a significant contribution to the study of literary criticism and European cultural history.
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In fascinating detail. . . . [Morse] touches on many topics, yet keeps separate Victorians of very different cultural worlds. . . . Mid-Victorian Britain memorably presented.
–Choice
Covering the four decades from the accession to the throne by Queen Victoria in 1837 to her proclamation as Empress of India in 1877, High Victorian Culture is an in-depth study of Victorian literature and culture in its heyday. The age of Dickens, Carlyle, Mill, George Eliot, Tennyson, and Browning, it is a time of growing national self-confidence and of impressive industrial, scientific and literary achievements. It is an age also marked by dislocation and uncertainty, in which certain familiar landmarks of a society crumble and disappear. It is a world haunted, in a way, by its own strategic silences, as a society that is in many ways profoundly undemocratic finds itself driven by democratic rhetoric. It is a culture in which the freedom of speech and openness of discussion it claims to tout so highly can actually masks prospects of revelation deeply disturbing to some its finest cultural practioners.
Extending his capacity for meshing the economic, political, religous, and artistic influences on literature to a new era, David Morse offers a new cultural perspective on the first four decades of the Victorian era.
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